The Elder Scrolls Website
offers the free release of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, as Bethesda
Softworks celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the release of the RPG series,
just like they released The Elder Scrolls: Arena for free five
years ago on the tenth anniversary The Elder Scrolls. The download is
available on
this page
along with The Elder Scrolls: Arena, and word is: "To run these games on newer
systems, you will need to download an emulation program. We have provided a link
to the DOSBox emulator below." Downloads of the free game are mirrored on
AtomicGamer and
FileFront.

The bugs were legendary. Even after a million patches clicking “buy” in a shop could still crash the game. Between that and save game corruption, I’m surprised anyone could play it without going crazy.

Dude, get real. Daggerfall is one big bug. It's a big, fat, retarded bug in and of itself. It's easily among the five worst games I have ever had the misfortune of playing. I wouldn't touch this free download with a 10ft pole. It's a complete waste of bandwidth.

Dude, get real. Daggerfall is one big bug. It's a big, fat, retarded bug in and of itself. It's easily among the five worst games I have ever had the misfortune of playing. I wouldn't touch this free download with a 10ft pole. It's a complete waste of bandwidth.

I still smile every time I hear that unmistakable creaking door sound effect on TV these days. (Kind of like DOOM's fireball "woosh" sound.)

Haha - that and the mechanical sliding open of a door from doom are the three most common sounds that I hear in TV shows.

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Daggerfall was a great (if extraordinarily buggy) game. For me it was the first 'open world' game on the computer that really seemed to be completely open, and in which you could do just about anything you wanted. I've yet to see a game with even a remotely similar scope; yeah, the towns were repetitive after a while, and those dungeons were just incredible SOBs, but man, what an enormous, incredible game all the same.